The best action quotes from film

Here are some of the best action quotes from some of the best films to hit the big screen.

Saving Private Ryan

Private Reiben: You wouldn’t shoot the kraut and now you’re gonna shoot me?

Sergeant Horvath: He’s better than you.

Spy

Susan Cooper: Well, here’s to your mom.

Rayna Boyanov: To my mother. And to you.

Susan Cooper: And here’s to you. I mean you may never be as wise as an owl but you’ll always be a hoot to me! Haha.

Rayna Boyanov: What a stupid fucking retarded toast. You’re delightful.

Susan Cooper: As are you.

Batman Forever

The Riddler: Did anyone ever tell you you have a serious impulse control problem?!

Captain America: The First Avenger

US Army soldier: Wait! You know what you’re doing?

Steve Rogers: Yeah, I’ve knocked out Adolf Hitler over 200 times.

Thor: The Dark World

Jane Foster: [slaps Loki.] That was for New York!

Loki: I like her.

Iron Man

Tony Stark: My old man had a philosophy: Peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy.

Christine Everheart: That’s a great line coming from the guy selling the sticks.

Ant-Man and the Wasp

Hank Pym: Hiya, champ, how was school today?

Scott Lang: Aw, ha ha ha! Alright, get your jokes out now, can you fix the suit?

Hope van Dyne: So cranky.

Hank Pym: You want a juice box and some string cheese?

Scott Lang: Do you really have that?

Bad Boys II

Mike Lowrey: We ride together, we die together. Bad boys for life.

The Hunt for Red October

Jeffrey Pelt: Mr. Ryan, I’m a politician. Which means I’m a cheat and a liar and when I’m not kissing babies I’m stealing their lollipops.

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Scott Pilgrim: When I’m around you, I kind of feel like I’m on drugs. Not that I do drugs. Unless you do drugs, in which case I do them all the time. All of them.

Fast Five

Roman Pearce: You know, I think I make a better special agent than you ever did.

Brian O’Conner: I guess that depends on how you define ‘special’.

Incredibles 2

Bob Parr: Why would they change math?

Fast & Furious

Dominic Toretto: It starts with the eyes. She’s gotta have those kind of eyes that can look right through the bullshit, to the good in someone. 20% angel,80% devil.

Down to earth. Ain’t afraid to get a little engine grease under her fingernails.

Gisele Harabo: That doesn’t sound anything like me.

Dominic Toretto: It ain’t.

Avengers: Age of Ultron

Tony Stark: What’s the vibranium for?

Ultron: I’m glad you asked that, because I wanted to take this time to explain my evil plan.

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Action and adventure quotes from some very awesome films

Check out these awesome quotes from some of the best action and adventure films ever made.

Face/Off (1997)

Castor Troy: I don’t know what I hate wearing worse, your face or your body. I mean, I enjoy boning your wife, but, uh, well, let’s face it, we both like it better the other way, yes? So why don’t we just trade back?

Sean Archer: You can’t give back what you’ve taken from me.

Castor Troy: Oh, well. Plan B. Let’s just kill each other.

Fast & Furious (2009)

Dominic Toretto: A real driver knows exactly what’s in his car.

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)

Deckard Shaw: This job requires stealth. Look at you.

Luke Hobbs: I’m trying to save the world, which for the record, will be my fourth time, because I’m really good at it.

First Blood (1982)

Rambo: I could have killed them all. I could have killed you. In town you’re the law. Out here, it’s me! Don’t push it! Don’t push it, or I’ll give you a war you won’t believe! Let it go. Let it go.

From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)

Carlos: What were they? Psychos?

Seth Gecko: They look like psychos? Is that what they looked like? They were vampires. Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them. I don’t give a f**k how crazy they are!

The Fugitive (1993)

[pointing a gun at Gerard]

Dr. Richard Kimble: I didn’t kill my wife!

Samuel Gerard: I don’t care!

Goldfinger (1964)

James Bond: Do you expect me to talk?

Auric Goldfinger: No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!

Gladiator (2000)

Maximus: My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius. Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.

Highlander (1986)

Connor MacLeod: There can be only one!

Hot Fuzz (2007)

Danny Butterman: Point Break or Bad Boys II?

Nicholas Angel: Which one do you think I’ll prefer?

Danny Butterman: No, I mean which one do you want to watch first?

Inception (2010)

Dom Cobb: Well dreams, they feel real while we’re in them, right? It’s only when we wake up that we realize that something was actually strange.

Independence Day (1996)

President Thomas Whitmore: Mankind, that word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can’t be consumed by our petty differences any more. We will be united in our common interest. Perhaps it’s fate that today is the fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom. Not from tyranny, oppression or persecution, but from annihilation. We’re fighting for our right to live. To exist. And should we win the day, the fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day when the world declared in one voice. We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight! We’re going to live on! We’re going to survive! Today, we celebrate our Independence Day!

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

Sallah: Please, what does it always mean, this “Junior”?

Professor Henry Jones: That’s his name. Henry Jones, Junior.

Indiana Jones: I like Indiana.

Professor Henry Jones: We named the dog Indiana.

Marcus Brody: May we go home now, please?

Sallah: [laughing] The dog? You are named after the dog?

Indiana Jones: I’ve got a lot of fond memories of that dog.

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Adventure quotes to inspire action in your life

We all need pick-me-ups every once in a while, and if this describes you right now, then take a read through these adventure quotes to inspire you to get up and go!

“Wake up with a plan of action, go to bed with satisfaction.”- Greg Plitt

“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.”- Jack Kerouac

“You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”- Andre Gide

“If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.”- Maya Angelou

“Don’t be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try.”- Michael Jordan

“Adventure should be 80% ‘I think this is manageable,’ but it’s good to have that last 20% where you’re right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.”- Bear Grylls

“If happiness is the goal – and it should be, then adventures should be top priority.”- Richard Branson

“If you don’t challenge yourself, you will never realise what you can become.”- Anonymous

“Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!”- Friedrich Nietzsche

“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”- Eleanor Roosevelt

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.”- Katharine Hepburn

“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”- Lao Tzu

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”- Mark Twain

“Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.”- Eckhart Tolle

“If you don’t take risks, you’ll have a wasted soul.”- Drew Barrymore

“Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of.”- Roy T. Bennett

“It doesn’t matter where you’re going, it’s who you have beside you.”- Anonymous

“Do what makes you feel amazing.”- Tara Stiles

“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in an office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.”- Jack Kerouac

“You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.”- Michael Phelps

“Better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.”- Asian Proverb

“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”- Oprah Winfrey

“Human progress has always been driven by a sense of adventure and unconventional thinking.”- Andre Geim

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Real Life Adventure Books Adventurers Love to Read

When it comes to your next adventurous read, who better than adventurers to recommend their favorite books? Here are two adventure books well worth the read, and what a couple of adventurers had to say about them.

The Worst Journey In The World (1922) by Apsley Cherry-Garrard. Does the thought of three men hauling 300 kilos through the Polar wilderness in -70ºC sound like a good time to you? We didn’t think so. Yet the narrator, a young member of Captain Scott’s expedition team, managed to describe the event with the dry wit that only the British could be known for.

Ben Saunders, polar explorer, had this to say: “It’s an epic tale of suffering and derring-do,” says Saunders. “The New York Review Of Books said it was, ‘To travel, what War And Peace is to the novel – a masterpiece.’ I’d go along with that!”

The Kon-Tiki Expedition (1950) by Thor Heyerdahl. In 1947 Thor Heyerdahl and his companions sailed 4,300 miles from Peru towards Polynesia in an attempt to prove that the Pacific was settled from the West. And for authenticity’s sake, they did it on a primitive raft like the kind the aboriginals would have used.

Tom Avery, author of To The End Of The Earth, had this to say about it: “I read it as a boy, and recently re-read it. Six men crossing the Earth’s largest ocean on a balsa raft? Surely the most inspiring adventure story ever told.”

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Adventure Book Suggestions to Get You Going

Some time ago adventurer Alastair Humphreys interviewed fellow adventurers and asked them about their favorite books in their particular field of expertise. When it came to walking adventures, Alastair chose to interview Leon McCarron, who walked across Mongolia, China, and the Empty Quarter Desert Here are Leon McCarron’s five favorite adventure books.

1. Clear Waters Rising – Nicholas Crane: A wonderfully British adventure – Nick Crane sets off across Europe on foot, following mountains all the way, and carrying little more than an umbrella by way of kit

2. Of Walking in Ice – Werner Herzog: I only recently got hold of this – it’s out of print – but if you imagine a Werner Herzog film put to text (about him walking across the Alps in Winter to visit a dying mentor) then you can imagine what’s going on. Mental and brilliant.

3. Wanderlust – a history of Walking – Rebecca Solnit: A bit heavy going at times (for those of us not used to academic texts) but mostly it is an enjoyable and ridiculously well research compendium of walking.

4. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien: I read this when I was a kid, and it’s responsible for my initial desires to walk long distances. Dissapointingly I’mve yet to do a trip with a horde of dwarves or elves’¦.

5. A Time of Gifts – Patrick Leigh Fermor: I didn’t want to put this in (it seemed far too obvious – I wanted to put in the slightly obscure journals of Lewis and Clark as they crossed America) but any walking list without Fermor is incomplete – probably the most poetic and wanderlust-enducing book ever written about walking.

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The Importance of Adventure in Our Daily Lives

Adventures can be anything from fun to frightening, unpredictable to out of the ordinary, and oh so worthwhile on so many different levels! We could all do with a bit more adventure on a regular basis, and here are just four of the many reasons why adventure is important in our everyday lives.

Change is good. The right adventure can take you out of your circumstances, and indeed, take you out of yourself. Adventure broadens your horizons, increases your awareness of the world around you, and inevitably leads to change, which can be a very good thing indeed.

The fun factor. We’re not saying there’s anything wrong with routine, but adventure can spice things up a bit and more often than not leads to a whole lot of fun, making everything seem just a little bit more worthwhile.

Adventure leads to personal growth. It’s through the tough and challenging times that we build strength and character, and it’s not just a matter of survival skills. The right adventure can help us not just survive but thrive in any situation.

It brings a sense of accomplishment. An adventure can be an achievement; a mountain to climb, a river to cross, a country to travel, or an obstacle to overcome. That feeling of accomplishment can be nothing short of euphoric in and of itself.

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Gearing Your Life Towards Adventure

It could be that you’ve reached a turning point in your life, or just that you’d like to try something new, but whatever the reason, when adventure comes calling it may just be a good idea to answer! Here are three ways to gear your life towards adventure.

Versatility. One of the keys to being able to include more adventure into your life is versatility. If you’re stuck in a 9-5 job, however, breaking out of that structure for the sake of shaking things up may be a difficult task. Yes, we all need to pay the bills somehow, but with remote work becoming more and more common it may just be time to re-evaluate career possibilities for the sake of something new.

Experiences not things. Some of life’s greatest adventures come with a hefty price tag, it’s an inescapable reality. It may be tempting to think that those experiences are simply unaffordable or out of reach, but that may not necessarily be true. For all the funds we sink into the latest tech there’s a world of experience that remains untouched, but when the money is set aside for that next big adventure instead of that next phone upgrade, the shift in priorities makes that grand adventure just a little bit more accessible.

Embracing the unknown. Many of us seek the comfort and familiarity of routine, but that comfort can become complacency quicker than we think. Breaking out of traditional routines can leave us open to the unknown, and it’s in the unknown that the greatest of life’s adventures lie.

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Action Movies That Started as Books

Who doesn’t love a good action movie? Fast-paced and made to get your heart pumping, there’s much to be said for a good thrill on the big screen. But every movie starts with an idea, and many of those ideas came from the literary world. Here are three action movies that actually started out as books.

Die Hard. Yes, that’s right, Bruce Willis’s action packed portrayal of detective John McClane is actually based on the adventures of detective Joe Leland, the principal character in Roderick Throp’s Nothing Lasts Forever. Although an adaptation of Throp’s novel, Die Hard did include some significant changes to the original story, notably the age of the protagonist (Willis played a much younger character) and the ending of the story, which was considerably happier in the movie.

Full Metal Jacket. Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece was actually adapted from Gulf War veteran Gustav Hasford’s novel The Short-Timers. Written in 1979, The Short-Timers is different in tone and structure than Full Metal Jacket, but is served no less as the inspiration for Kubrick’s 1987 film.

Rambo: First Blood. Based on First Blood, David Morrel’s first novel, the screenplay went through a decade or revisions before finally making it to the screen. Notably different between the book and the movie is the ending. Whereas John Rambo commits suicide at the end of the book the film altered the story to have Rambo turning himself into authorities, perhaps some foresight by producers who envisioned a lofty future for the franchise.

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